Research Catalog

Title

Approaching literature : reading, thinking, writing / Peter Schakel, Jack Ridl.

Author

Schakel, Peter J.

Publication

Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, [2017]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Ridl, Jack

Description

lxvii, 1164 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Approaching Literature is a text and anthology designed to engage even reluctant students in the rewarding process of reading, thinking, and writing about literature. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl aim to use diverse, contemporary literary works as entry points to understanding and appreciating literary classics, and to make the instruction in reading and writing welcoming and accessible to all students, not just potential English majors. With its affordable price as well as its streamlined and supportive approach to reading, thinking, and writing about literature, all students will find something in Approaching Literature that helps them find common ground with the voices of our literary present and past"--Back cover.

Subject

• College readers
• English language > Rhetoric > Problems, exercises, etc
• Reading (Higher education) > Problems, exercises, etc
• Report writing > Problems, exercises, etc
• American literature

Genre/Form

• exercise books.
• Problems and exercises
• Problèmes et exercices.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Approaching literature -- Approaching fiction -- Approaching poetry -- Approaching drama.

ISBN

• 1457688034
• 9781457688034

OCLC

• 954270738
• SCSB-12700929

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library